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Golden Rice is a promising transgenic crop. When released for cultivation, it will help in

Updated On: Apr 27, 2024
  • Producing a petrol-like fuel from Rice
  • Alleviation of vitamin A deficiency
  • Pest resistance
  • Herbicide tolerance
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Golden rice or miracle rice is rich in Vitamin A or ?-carotene and iron. It could only be achieved using genetic engineering because although there is provitamin A in the leaves of rice plants but it is absent in the endosperm which is the edible part of rice. So the poor people dependent mainly on rice as their daily energy source suffered from vitamin A deficiency. Golden rice proved to be a rich source of vitamin A for the consumers of rice.
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Applications of Biotechnology

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